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Mexican minister presents new education model for globalized world

Xinhua, July 21, 2016 Adjust font size:

Mexico's Education Minister Aurelio Nuno presented on Wednesday a new education model to meet the current challenges of a more globalized world.

The model will encompass elementary up to high school and is based three themes: schools, teachers and content.

According to Nuno, schools for the first time will be given autonomy to decide part of the content that they will teach to their pupils.

The new model contemplates allowing schools to define a part of their curriculum when it comes to giving chess classes, financial and robotics education as well as regional content, said the minister.

Key learning, artistic and sporting activities are also contemplated along with emotional regulation and life values, Nuno noted.

The minister said the new education model will serve as a guide to the policies and strategies needed in the education sector with collaboration from teachers, parents, pupils, the public and political parties.

At an official ceremony held on the patio of the Public Education Secretariat, Nuno also presented the curricular proposal for Compulsory Education.

Nuno explained that the new model will be submitted for three rounds of public consultation between July 29 and Aug.29.

From next week, he said, the National Governors' Conference will convene in order to address issues in education.

"This is a process that we should carry out with a lot of care and we should build the new education and teacher training programs so that in 2018 we can give Mexico the change it needs," said the minister.

Without mentioning the conflict between the federal government and thousands of dissident teachers from the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE), who are still in dispute over educational reform from 2013 which forces teachers to undergo compulsory evaluation, Nuno reiterated his commitment to "improving" education so that it can be adapted to meet regional particularities. Endi